The vegansexual debate
Posted in Entertainment by Mark Rocket on August 29th, 2007
It was amusing to see the vegansexual debate raging in New Zealand in few weeks ago. It all started with Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, doing research on the lives of “cruelty-free consumers.” Then the Press published an article called ‘Carnivore Sex Off the Menu‘ featuring vegans Nichola and Hans Kriek, which led to a large amount of feedback in New Zealand and offshore.
Myself, I’m not a vegansexual, though I take my hat off to them for following their values. I’m a vegetarian who goes for a bit of cheese on my pizza, so I’m the more laid back vegosexual variety.
Personally, I think the vegan no-sex-with-meateaters thing is a bit of a rare case. For starters, there are a lot more vegetarians than there are vegans. Second, I know of a lot of vegetarians that would happily get with meateaters for a fling, but when there’s steak and kidney in the fridge, it’s the long term relationships that vegetarians can find difficult to sustain. Vegetarians with a soft spot for a meateater are left with three choices – deal with it, move on… or convert them!
Greta Simpson
August 30th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
It’s interesting that part of their reasoning is the idea that a meateater’s body is a graveyard for dead animals. For me it’s more a philosophical thing than anything physical… I couldn’t be with someone who didn’t care about the planet and who treated animals as expendable commodities, so other vegetarians will always be more attractive to me than carnivores!
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